Characters On The Couch

How a psychologist thinks about your favorite Film & TV characters.

sexual abuse

NEVER RARELY
SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Secret World Of Sexual Abuse
Is There Someone To
Reach Inside My Pain?

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Watching Autumn’s cautious troubled face in the quietness of Never Rarely Sometimes Always draws us into the dark shattered life of a traumatized girl. If she’d let us in. Autumn lives behind walls. Alone. Vigilant. Angry. Always afraid. Can’t allow help: “I’ve got it.” People aren’t to be trusted. That she’s learned. If you think …

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SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Secret World Of Sexual Abuse
Is There Someone To
Reach Inside My Pain?

COLD WAR
Zula’s Shame Versus
Wiktor’s Desperation
An Impossible Love

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“I knocked, I cried, she wouldn’t open up.” That is Wiktor’s torment. These lyrics begin Pawel Pawlikowski’s film Cold War and foretell the fate of Wiktor and Zula’s love. A love that never had a chance. Theirs is a war originating in Zula’s history. A history that spawned deep shame and distrust of love. Just …

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Zula’s Shame Versus
Wiktor’s Desperation
An Impossible Love

SPOTLIGHT
Breaking The Cult Of Secrecy
Surrounding Sexual Abuse

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“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one” M. Garabedian Secrets are damaging. The film, Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy, tells the story of one very pernicious secret uncovered by an investigative team, named Spotlight, at the Boston Globe. That secret, the widespread sexual abuse by Catholic …

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Breaking The Cult Of Secrecy
Surrounding Sexual Abuse